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Power BI - the most unintuitive piece of software I’ve ever come across. Useful things hidden in tiny ****ing menus. Just purchase a goddamned WMS!
Incorrect use of language and using flowery bollocks speak where plain and simple language would be better. I’m looking at you business meetings!
Shoe sizes. I wish there was a standardised sizing system
What's wrong with Barleycorns?
'Selfies'. Just the word makes me cringe and twitch.
Pictures of someone's dinner on the internet.
Groups of people who string themselves along the entire width of a trail/path, especially when combined with a complete lack of awareness of other people.
Speaking of which… I don’t own a van but do hire one occasionally. Most of them come with a rear view mirror. These vans have a solid bulkhead and rear doors with no windows. Why on earth do they need a rear view mirror?
Depends on the van type. Lutons or other bespoke body types will have been supplied as a chassis cab and these have mirrors fitted as standard as the finished vehicle is more likely going to have a flat bed which can make use of a rear view mirror (not always according to some of the driving skill demonstrated i by their drivers around these parts). It's cheaper to bash out x hundred thousand standard chassis cab units than have build tickets and the associated computer stuff required to maintain the records.
Power BI – the most unintuitive piece of software I’ve ever come across. Useful things hidden in tiny **** menus.
Oracle Fusion is far worse.
What absolute group of morons dreamed that one up?!
People who butter toast, sandwiches, scones etc. only in a small central patch, surrounded by a dry, arid border. Rendering 80% of an otherwise pleasant comestible, sad, diminished and unfulfilled.
I cannot be friends with these people.
People who throw their rubbish away and not put it in a bin. I particularity detest drivers who throw stuff out of their windows whilst driving.
Smokers and Vapers who blow smoke into my space while walking by me.. That makes me really angry.
People who throw their rubbish away and not put it in a bin. I particularity detest drivers who throw stuff out of their windows whilst driving.
I don't think it's disproportionate to get cross about that.
Subtitles for foreign language films in American English!
Self service tills in supermarkets and the robotic 'thank you, goodbye'.
@asbrooks - YES! Smelling smokers and vapers is the worst! Awful.
...there just isn't any excuse for littering at all.
People who ask “can you show me how you would do…” then as soon as you start to explain they interrupt to say “well let me just show you how I’ve been doing it”.
NO! You asked me to show you. I couldn’t give a **** how you’re doing it.
As mentioned somewhere above - clickbait language;
“UK Doctors are begging people to do this one simple thing”
”iPhone users, don’t forget to do this on Friday”
And worse than anything else in the world… the thing that makes me want to shit; Online recipe writers.
I do not want your life story, anecdotes of how you discovered this recipe, what all your friends think of it, or whatever else you think about anything. Just forget the word count & write the ****ing recipe.
....after a long conversation with a client when they say 'can you put that in an email for me?'
It's been an important meeting, why haven't you been taking notes?!?!?!?
Online recipe writers.
I do not want your life story, anecdotes of how you discovered this recipe, what all your friends think of it, or whatever else you think about anything. Just forget the word count & write the **** recipe.
😂👌
Yeah, sure, I’m certain everyone stood behind you paid nearly £100 to watch the show through your 10″ screen
Related, and topical - idiots who go 10 yards down the beach to get closer to photograph the blue supermoon, ignoring the fact that by doing so they are walking right into your shot.
….after a long conversation with a client when they say ‘can you put that in an email for me?’
It’s been an important meeting, why haven’t you been taking notes?!?!?!?
I've probably done something like that myself. It's because I want you to put in writing what you've just said, in case I misheard or misunderstood it, so I can hold you to it later 🙂
Power BI – the most unintuitive piece of software I’ve ever come across. Useful things hidden in tiny **** menus. Just purchase a goddamned WMS!
More specifically M - I'd like to know which muppet in MS signed off on the decision to make it case sensitive.
And worse than anything else in the world… the thing that makes me want to shit; Online recipe writers.
I do not want your life story, anecdotes of how you discovered this recipe, what all your friends think of it, or whatever else you think about anything. Just forget the word count & write the **** recipe.
It improves their chances of Google putting it high in the search results. The writers are trying to earn money, long stories make more money.
https://jjpryor.substack.com/p/why-are-online-recipes-always-so
Self service tills in supermarkets and the robotic ‘thank you, goodbye’.
"Your Clubcard points add up!"
And here was me expecting long division.
People who butter toast, sandwiches, scones etc. only in a small central patch, surrounded by a dry, arid border. Rendering 80% of an otherwise pleasant comestible, sad, diminished and unfulfilled.
This post should be marked NSFW
crisp packets etc stuck in summit cairns, and general lack of respect for being outdoors.
our neighbours.
Old people in the supermarket, who after paying for their shopping, stand right at the exit to the checkout examining in close detail their till receipt.
What's worse than Power BI? The ****ing assholes who use it micromanage without any concept of the actual job. Or use an exceptional outcome as the norm without checking why its such an outlier....
Catching clothing on bike handlebars as a I walk past irritates me intensely.
Old French people paying by cheque in the supermarket with a massive queue behind them and then filling out their stub before moving off.
In fact retired people doing their shopping at the weekend annoys me too - you don't go to work during the week so why are you clogging up the supermarkets and town centres on a weekend when it's going to take you longer !
People video calling in the supermarket. They wander around aimlessly, chatting away with no care for anyone else. Just do your shopping and get out the flipping way!
Ooh supermarkets full stop. Hateful places with absolutely nothing super about them (apart from the cafe in my local Sainsbury’s). Just dithering idiots strolling about at a pace that makes a sloth look like a speed runner. Just get what you need and piss off out of my way!
Old people in the supermarket, who after paying for their shopping, stand right at the exit to the checkout examining in close detail their till receipt.
Oh, I have a new supermarket one.
The local Tesco has self scan / Scan As You Go tills... which are the same tills. So I'm there with a scanner in my back pocket, get to the till, zap the barcode, answer "no, there's nothing I couldn't scan," hit Pay, ding my phone, and I'm outta here. I'm in and out in faster than it took me to type that.
Except, they're always rammed with people with baskets stacked two foot high who are painfully scanning every bloody item, the obligatory "unexpected item in bagging area" requiring the one member of staff looking after six tills to have to go sort it out (single point of failure also). And then half the time after they've paid (in exact change, obvs) they then produce carrier bags and start bagging up. You're doing a weekly shop manually at quarter to four, I'm here because my girlfriend's asked me get her a sandwich, and the queue is back to the door. Why not just use a regular till FFS.
In fact retired people doing their shopping at the weekend annoys me too – you don’t go to work during the week so why are you clogging up the supermarkets and town centres on a weekend when it’s going to take you longer !
I do it because I can and to annoy the you. Think of it as my new hobby
Banging your bag of nuts on the weighing area but them not getting recognized. Banging them harder and harder until assistant comes up and points out the weighing area is the other side. The other side of the till to the exit!? Total madness!
Banging your bag of nuts on the weighing area but them not getting recognized
What item do you search for on the display for them - is it under plums or kiwis? Or are yours barcoded? Sounds painful regardless.
People who go 450 degrees around a roundabout to cut the queue of traffic taking the first exit.
It's aggravated ball-baggery of the highest order. To gain a few seconds for themselves they cut off all the traffic at the other entries to the roundabout and cause those to queue up.
On my way home there's one roundabout where this is rife. One tadger in a golf with one of those awful stickers that shows a stick man dad, mum, 2 kids and a dog in the back window does it every day. I don't think it's goes to far to say him, his wife and kids all need the old testament treatment. The dog probably won't ever drive so it's ok.
Banging your bag of nuts on the weighing area but them not getting recognized. Banging them harder and harder until assistant comes up and points out the weighing area is the other side.
I mean, I'm open to a bit of uniform fantasy, but the Tesco look is not high on my list.
Or are you misunderstanding "self service"?
The current crop of commentators on Eurosport DH coverage. One of them seems to be deliberately and forcibly dropping his 'T's wherever possible, even when it sounds harder to do than just pronouncing the word/name with all consonants intact!
I can't help imagine that they think they are somehow 'relating' to a younger crowd of viewers or something by doing it.
Or maybe I'm just repressing memories of being scolded by my dad every time I dropped a 'T'... 🙄
French people
Getting to the top of an escalator, taking one step off and stopping to check their phone, look for their cigarettes, whatever, with the obvious pile up resulting. I’m sure other nationalities are also guilty but for some reason I associate this asinine behaviour with France.
bruneep
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In fact retired people doing their shopping at the weekend annoys me too – you don’t go to work during the week so why are you clogging up the supermarkets and town centres on a weekend when it’s going to take you longer !I do it because I can and to annoy the you. Think of it as my new hobby
I'm the kind of vengeful **** that will end up doing just the same as you
Or maybe I’m just repressing memories of being scolded by my dad every time I dropped a ‘T’… 🙄
What a cun.
Self service tills in supermarkets and the robotic ‘thank you, goodbye’.
"Thank you for shopping at Tasda."
Anything that needs an app to make it work.
New one for me... "Grandparent's Day"... buy, buy, buy...
People who leave their shopping trolleys randomly in supermarket car parks. Yes, someone employed by the supermarket will pick it up from the place you've dumped it but if you managed to walk around the supermarket you can walk the extra 10m to put it in the right place.
People who leave their shopping trolleys randomly in supermarket car parks.
I think they are the same demographic that throw McDonalds wrappers and Red Bull cans out of car windows.
Stood waiting turn then phone rings and that gets answered...typical yesterday:
20minute stood waiting to pick up repaired car tyre...women in front complaining given wrong keys...she was right...her black Mercedes was the newer of the two but the one they had extracted from the tetris parking wasn't hers..."look I'll point the key and show you"..."oh"...guy finally reappears to the phone ringing...ignores me and answers...not a customer another branch insisting he went out and physically checked if had stock some tyre so rather than offer to ring back he goes off to do it straight away....I wasted his time by chatting about his dog photos
stwhannah
Anything that needs an app to make it work.
Unfortunately these days I very often need a nap to make me work. 😂
Stood waiting turn then phone rings and that gets answered…typical yesterday:
On a related note,
Shop assistants yapping on their mobile whilst simultaneously attempting to serve you. Surely the height of ignorance.
Minicab drivers who drop anchor in the middle of the road blocking off traffic when there's a perfectly viable space right next to them. I feel like knocking on their window and asking if they'd like me to order a taxi for them in order to give them a lift to the kerb.
Minicab drivers who arrive with all the windows down because they've blatantly just had a fag on the way over.
Loosing when people mean losing (see thread about CRC Wiggle in bike forum)
A colleague who seems to think that i, as the SME on a subject, with a huge raft of legal requirements from multiple territories to comply with (many of which conflict with each other). Can just slip a "minor tweak into the code" to allow a behaviour that is explicitly illegal in half the markets and in conflict with a "strong recommendation" in about a dozen others. Apparently about 200 customers have complained about the existing behaviour.
First answer was long, flowery and detailed with lots of explanations and links to the relevant legislation. Two screens full of data.
The next one (number 6 or 7 i think) may result in me getting a call from HR or their manager. It will also be less than 12 words.
The last one was 4 bullet points. And only 4 bullet points.
Asking the question hasn't made me cross, it's asking it 5 or 6 times that has.
My supermarket one is people waiting untill the checkout person tells them how much, before they begin to start searching frantically in every pocket, bag etc. for their means of payment. As if the fact that they are required to pay for what's in their trolley has come as a great shock to them. Then rinse and repeat when asked if they have a nectar, club or whatever card!
If I could have surgery to turn my Paddington hard-stare into Lazer beams, there would be a trail of death and destruction in the shops round here.
Shop assistants yapping on their mobile whilst simultaneously attempting to serve you. Surely the height of ignorance.
I was in a pub waiting to be served by the barman who was too busy on the phone to notice me. After a minute I shouted to him will I send you a text to order my drinks? To be fair be was embarrassed and apologised.
It really wasn't his fault as I somehow always seem to wear a cloak of invisibility when I'm at a bar as they never see me...
Currently staying in a Travelodge in Dumbarton to break up my drive North and it has made me cross…
Sinks with no way of knowing how to lift up the plug from the plug hole. My toothpaste swillings are going down the loo
Oh, I came up with a brilliant invention for that. If we put plugs on a little chain, we could just yank them out rather than playing hunt-the-lever or fishing around in the dirty water after we've just dried our hands. I'm surprised no-one's thought of it before.
(is there a little push-rod affair behind the tap maybe?)
The use of “PIN numbers” in this thread:
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/probability-odds-question/
Nope no rods. Just a mixer tap which I’ve tried pushing and pulling and hitting
Houns it'll be a pop-up. Press down on the middle of the plug to release.
People who can't have a normal conversation without turning it into a debate that they some how have to 'win'.
It's so mentally exhausting.
Basins in the gents with only a hot tap. That's OK but putting a sign up saying "Danger, hit water" annoys me. What am I meant to do? Risk the dangerous hot water or not wash my hands?
Sinks with no way of knowing how to lift up the plug from the plug hole. My toothpaste swillings are going down the loo
On a rotating pin maybe?
Hand dryers that only blow out coldish air that also have really weak fans, barely strong enough to move a leaf.
Fit a proper one or just have paper towels ffs!
People who can’t have a normal conversation without turning it into a debate
No they don't.
Houns it’ll be a pop-up. Press down on the middle of the plug to release.
Or one that just pivots in the middle, basically a disc that hinges open and closed. Push on one edge.
eBay scamming fees out of people.
List an item using 80% off final value fees and item doesn’t sell in 30 days so is automatically relisted with no warning email or anything and strangely sells within a few hours at the full rate. W⚓️s.
People on classified ads that say "Here we have". Fills me with rage and I'm not sure why
That tomatoes doesn’t have a consistent order of symmetry.
Trying to get old caked stock of certain salts out of jars. Endless scraping with a spatula.
That tomatoes doesn’t have a consistent order of symmetry.
Not something I've ever noticed, but I'll never look at a tomato the same way again. Thanks 😡
'Cyclists Dismount' signs on cycle paths. WTF! You never see a 'driver's mist get out and puch' sign on a road.
You never see a ‘driver’s mist get out and puch’ sign on a road.
Your not rong, their.
That tomatoes doesn’t have a consistent order of symmetry.
That definitely fits the disproportionate part of the thread brief!
University accommodation costs
My supermarket one is people waiting untill the checkout person tells them how much, before they begin to start searching frantically in every pocket, bag etc. for their means of payment. As if the fact that they are required to pay for what’s in their trolley has come as a great shock to them. Then rinse and repeat when asked if they have a nectar, club or whatever card!
See, I hate being that person but do you know what I hate more? When a previous version of an app (Google Wallet) offers a convenient function (long hold app to select required card) and then removes said function on a mandatory "upgrade". Everyone complains and they don't do a ****ing thing about it! Also compounded by the fact that to get into the app, wait for it to load and then select the correct card takes a bloody age. Yes, I'd do it beforehand but I was either too busy putting my shopping on the conveyer and letting people with 2 things in front of me or wrangling a forecourt pump!
Okay, I had a giggle when I saw this:
That’s OK but putting a sign up saying “Danger, hit water” annoys me.
But then I saw this:
You never see a ‘driver’s mist get out and puch’ sign on a road.
Also, nobody wants a Puch, they're a shit catalogue brand.
Just been reminded of this one...folk asking for recommendations of places to ride with loads of specific, unrealistic expectations
"I'm going to [unlikely mtb destination] next week and looking for recommendations of trails. I like sweet flowing singletrack - not looking for any hike-a-bike, forest tracks, trail centres road sections or steep climbs. Anyone got a gpx?"
So you basically want Finale Ligure but just outside Nantwich. Yeah the good trails are just past the Argentinian vegan restaurant and the Arab wine bar, turn left. ****s.
I pressed the plug, I even tried to prise it up. No joy. Stumped. Ah well, now camping on Mull so not an issue